NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1650 With GDDR6 Memory Shows Up – Entire Turing Family Being Shifted To G6 Memory In 2020

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1650 might be getting a silent update by AIBs if the recent listings at EEC are anything to go by. The GeForce GTX 1650 released back in 2019 and its SUPER variant released by the end of 2019. The GTX 1650 SUPER is no doubt a much better card with pricing close to the GTX 1650 itself, making it obsolete but it looks like AIBs are planning to clear away GTX 1650 inventory by offering a memory upgrade.

According to the EEC listing which has been spotted by Videocardz, there's a full list of cards that utilize the custom NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 design. The brand in specific is MSI and there are at least 8 custom variants listed which feature the updated design. Following is the list of all the models that have been listed:

Now the first impression would be that this is a second and less interesting SUPER variant for the GTX 1650 but that's not the case here. In fact, these GeForce GTX 1650 graphics cards should carry the same GPU specifications which include an NVIDIA Turing TU117 GPU and up to 4 GB of memory. There's a slight possibility that we might get a core bump as the gap between the GTX 1650 and the SUPER variant is quite significant so while the GTX 1650 features 896 cores, the updated GTX 1650 might end up with 896 or 1024 cores which should be pretty interesting.

The real update would be the memory and in the case of the updated variant, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 would feature GDDR6 memory which would replace the GDDR5 memory on the existing G5 variants. Just for comparison, the GDDR5 variants feature 8 Gbps pin speeds for a total bandwidth of 128 GB/s while the GTX 1650 SUPER features 12 Gbps pin speeds for a total bandwidth of 192 GB/s. If AIBs are to use the 12 Gbps dies, then that would deliver a nice boost in performance that might help it close the gap with the Radeon RX 5500 XT 4 GB graphics cards.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX/GTX "Turing" Family:

Graphics Card Name

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

GPU Architecture

Turing GPU (TU117)

Turing GPU (TU116)

Turing GPU (TU116)

Turing GPU (TU116)

Turing GPU (TU106)

Turing GPU (TU106)

Turing GPU (TU104)

Turing GPU (TU102)

Process

12nm FNN

12nm FNN

12nm FNN

12nm FNN

12nm FNN

12nm FNN

12nm FNN

12nm FNN

Die Size

200mm2

284mm2

284mm2

284mm2

445mm2

445mm2

545mm2

754mm2

Transistors

4.7 Billion

6.6 Billion

6.6 Billion

6.6 Billion

10.6 Billion

10.6 Billion

13.6 Billion

18.6 Billion

CUDA Cores

896 Cores

1408 Cores

1408 Cores

1536 Cores

1920 Cores

2304 Cores

2944 Cores

4352 Cores

TMUs/ROPs

56/32

88/48

88/48

96/48

120/48

144/64

192/64

288/96

GigaRays

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

5 Giga Rays/s

6 Giga Rays/s

8 Giga Rays/s

10 Giga Rays/s

Cache

1.5 MB L2 Cache

1.5 MB L2 Cache

1.5 MB L2 Cache

1.5 MB L2 Cache

4 MB L2 Cache

4 MB L2 Cache

4 MB L2 Cache

6 MB L2 Cache

Base Clock

1485 MHz

1530 MHz

1530 MHz

1500 MHz

1365 MHz

1410 MHz

1515 MHz

1350 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1785 MHz

1785 MHz

1770 MHz

1680 MHz

1620 MHz
1710 MHz OC

1710 MHz
1800 MHz OC

1545 MHz
1635 MHz OC

Compute

3.0 TFLOPs

5.0 TFLOPs

5.0 TFLOPs

5.5 TFLOPs

6.5 TFLOPs

7.5 TFLOPs

10.1 TFLOPs

13.4 TFLOPs

Memory

Up To 4 GB GDDR5

Up To 6 GB GDDR5

Up To 6 GB GDDR6

Up To 6 GB GDDR6

Up To 6 GB GDDR6

Up To 8 GB GDDR6

Up To 8 GB GDDR6

Up To 11 GB GDDR6

Memory Speed

8.00 Gbps

8.00 Gbps

14.00 Gbps

12.00 Gbps

14.00 Gbps

14.00 Gbps

14.00 Gbps

14.00 Gbps

Memory Interface

128-bit

192-bit

192-bit

192-bit

192-bit

256-bit

256-bit

352-bit

Memory Bandwidth

128 GB/s

192 GB/s

336 GB/s

288 GB/s

336 GB/s

448 GB/s

448 GB/s

616 GB/s

Power Connectors

N/A

8 Pin

8 Pin

8 Pin

8 Pin

8 Pin

8+8 Pin

8+8 Pin

TDP

75W

120W

125W

120W

160W

185W (Founders)
175W (Reference)

225W (Founders)
215W (Reference)

260W (Founders)
250W (Reference)

Starting Price

$149 US

$219 US

$229 US

$279 US

$349 US

$499 US

$699 US

$999 US

Price (Founders Edition)

$149 US

$219 US

$229 US

$279 US

$349 US

$599 US

$799 US

$1,199 US

Launch

April 2019

March 2019

October 2019

February 2019

January 2019

October 2018

September 2018

September 2018

In the end, this feels more like NVIDIA's AIBs clearing out their stock of GTX 1650 GPUs rather than a new SKU launch but it would be interesting nevertheless. There's no word on the launch date but the pricing would be kept similar to the GTX 1650 around $149 US.

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